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Social Psychology Department Hosts SoDoc 2026 Doctoral Student Workshop
From September 21 to 24, 2026, the Landau Campus hosted SoDoc, the annual doctoral student workshop of the DGPs’ Social Psychology Section. Twenty-four doctoral students from Germany and abroad gathered to present their dissertation projects and discuss them with four invited experts: Prof. Anna Baumert (University of Wuppertal), Prof. Jan Häusser (University of Giessen), Prof. Roland Imhoff (University of Mainz), and Prof. Paolo Riva (University of Milan-Bicocca). Four keynote presentations addressed moral courage in the face of norm violations, the interplay between social identity and social support, conspiracy-mindedness as a political attitude, and the temporal dimensions of social exclusion. The workshop was organized by Larissa Cassandra Damp, Lea Lorenz, Helena Wesnitzer, Elena Gehringer, and Lou Dörr, based at the Social Psychology Research Unit. The event was sponsored by the DGP’s Social Psychology Section, the SCOPE research initiative, the ZGaPL, and the Friends of RPTU in Landau.
